Joyous shrieks, wide grins and bouquets of blossoming roses marked the selection Monday morning of seven young women as Royal Court princesses at the Tournament of Roses house in Pasadena.

Selected from a group of 31 finalists who waited nervously on a carpet-lined staircase, the young women will act as ambassadors for the 2015 Tournament of Roses and attend as many as 100 community and media functions in the run-up to the 126th Rose Parade.

Before naming the princesses, a tournament official told the hundreds of friends and family in attendance to “breathe,” then he read the names from envelopes, one at a time.